Baseball stats show June 5th was Ferris Bueller's day off (opens in new tab)

Actually, Ferris' high school, Glenbrook North High School [1], is scheduled to get out on June 9th this year [2]. School calendars usually follow similar schedules over many years, so it's reasonable to assume that it had a similar schedule in 1985, making the last scheduled day either June 6th or 13th. Plus, snow days invariably cause the school year to go a few days longer.

[1] http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0091042/trivia [2] http://www.glenbrook225.org/north/calendars/Documents/2010_2...

This year, Chicago Public Schools get out on June 17th:

http://www.cps.edu/Calendar/Key_events/Pages/KeyEvents.aspx

I tried finding their 1985 calendar in Google's cache, but can't seem to find it :)

The movie takes place the week before school is out.

For anyone who is interested or not, it was my 3rd birthday

Maybe it was miscalled and not really a bunt? The possibility it was the next batter (considering that some time passed) may be more likely.

According to yahoo answers, of all places, the rule has been in place since 1909. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080723181123AA...